Rosamundo - Couverture souple

De La Cuesta, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1635342759 ISBN 13 : 9781635342758

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2017

Synopsis

In this narrative prose poem, Priscilla, home health aide, college dropout, social activist, sets out to work on her bicycle at dawn. Passing the old woolen mill, she meditates on the city's history and her family's part in its founding. As she visits her clients in their apartments, the space shuttle Columbia orbits above, sending down messages, the mayor visits the Sunshine Club, a parachutist lands in Leary Field, an AA meeting takes place in the basement of the Italian Church... Evening comes. Priscilla feeds her children. Called back to work, she suffers a long-feared bicycle accident, is taken overnight to the hospital where she has some ecstatic and revelatory thoughts about her survival. Dawn comes, the shuttle lands.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara de la Cuesta has one published novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Novel Award in 2007. She has published stories in The Texas Quarterly, The New Orleans Review, and The New American Review, and received Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, The Virginia Center, and The Millay Colony where she completed Rosamundo. Though she now lives in New Jersey where she still teaches languages, for many years she lived and taught English as a Second Language in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. There she was fortunate to have an opportunity, to come to know some extraordinary students among the latest waves of immigrants. As well, through her work in an elder facility, she became acquainted with older immigrants retired from the historic woolen mill and the watch factory. A fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation enabled her cobble together a living from these part-time jobs and have time to take notes on her surroundings and begin Rosamundo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1635342759
• ISBN 13: 9781635342758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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